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Louisgod posted:when you ignore the growing and rampant food insecurity, crumbling healthcare industry, aging population, plummeting insect populations, slow corrosion of coral reefs, blatant rise of fascism in the face of economic change, growing lack of accessible clean water, migration of refugees away from conflicts and crumbling political institutions, and so on, everything really is fine
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Mar 30, 2023 18:45
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:landscaping guy I know says that mulch, of all things, is in short supply and skyrocketing in price lately. fuckin mulch lol coming soon: reverse mortgage your body, get cash now for mulching your organic form in 5 years!
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Mar 30, 2023 18:46
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HallelujahLee posted:nothings going on at all says some idiot multiple countries beginning to switch to yuan in deals no big deal nothing is ever a big deal 
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Mar 30, 2023 18:47
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Tuckerd posted:nothing is ever a big deal its all totally normal therefore nothing needs to be done
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Mar 30, 2023 18:47
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:yeah but that doesn't mean that the united states is not in the process of collapsing. us being normalized to poo poo falling apart doesn't mean that at some point we're not gonna have to deal with the reality that nothing loving works anymore Not only does nothing work, but we've created a system that incentivizes fixing things as slowly as possible I've been watching the loving VDOT build a roundabout for like 2 years now it shouldn't be that hard
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Mar 30, 2023 18:48
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There's zero interest among the people in charge to make sure the every day building blocks of a society are produced because they're too busy chasing the financialization dragon. we can't get mulch, we can't get cold medicine, we couldn't get eggs for a while there. We're just going to have rotating supply chain disasters while the people capable of fixing the problem and getting the widgets made spend their time trading instruments back and forth for ever-escalating prices. very cool
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Mar 30, 2023 18:48
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/affordable-care-act-preventive-care-reed-oconnor/index.html I guess now they just deny preventative care instead of simply coding the free care as diagnostic which isn't covered.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:49
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:landscaping guy I know says that mulch, of all things, is in short supply and skyrocketing in price lately. fuckin mulch lol just when I thought things couldn't get mulch worse!
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Mar 30, 2023 18:49
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Frosted Flake posted:In your opinion, what institutions or material conditions are stable or improving? eggs and gas are cheap again 
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Mar 30, 2023 18:49
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:~ I've been workin' on the derailroad Hearty loving chuckle
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Mar 30, 2023 18:50
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This reminds me how the trait connected to fascism in disco Elysium is endurance.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:50
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HallelujahLee posted:the only people that can say legitimately that things are going well for them are the parasites at the top i dont know how you can believe things are going well unless your entirely delusional or are a psycho that doesnt care i guess. feels like 97% of americans live in an innate state of denial as they lack the general tools to compartmentalize our state of collapse without being completely overwhelmed, so it's easier to ignore it and focus on important things like football and red wine.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:50
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forget the idea of building anything with wood because that's a precious as gold now and christ don't even think about MDF, everyone needs that
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Mar 30, 2023 18:50
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Oh cool $13 million in city money handed over to a for-profit entity to bribe them into running a for-profit grocery store (in a location that recently got wiped out by a flood). Definitely a good use of public funds and not a corrupt handover of tax dollars to private interests when the city could have just run a grocery store there.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:51
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:It's FINE. The cops said they're like not even real trains so it doesn't even matter like AT ALL they CAN derail. at this price point they are ALLOWED to derail.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:51
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Louisgod posted:feels like 97% of americans live in an innate state of denial as they lack the general tools to compartmentalize our state of collapse without being completely overwhelmed, so it's easier to ignore it and focus on important things like football and red wine. its easier to live in denial than to fix the problems
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Mar 30, 2023 18:52
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:eggs and gas are cheap again good to know the barometer of everything being fine is "price go down"
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Mar 30, 2023 18:52
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social media panicking about what to do when the states start throwing people off Medicaid is already startingquote:Hi guys ! What happens when you go over the income requirements for Medicaid health insurance PA(I currently have) ? My employee currently doesn't offer me health insurance. If I do go over $400 over the income requirements, what kind of health insurance coverage does PA offer ? I'm just curious if it's affordable and if it's lovely. I want to know what to expect
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Mar 30, 2023 18:53
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Fitzy Fitz posted:and I assume outlets like Buzzfeed don't even have an incentive to generate decent writing. they just need enough to get clicks and generate ad revenue. Bleacher Report's entire business model was the editorial team makes a clickbait headline and then they find some writer to write a few hundred words on it. buzzfeed is eliminating the writer.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:53
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:social media panicking about what to do when the states start throwing people off Medicaid is already starting What kind of insurance? Well... none kind.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:53
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Louisgod posted:good to know the barometer of everything being fine is "price go down" eggs are still twice as expensive as they used to be and gas hasent gone down to its previous levels so even that troll reply is wrong
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Mar 30, 2023 18:53
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The eggs and fuel haven't dropped in price where I'm at. Of course the spot price of either of these things only matters when it's rising, when it's falling they just keep it the same.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:53
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Me sowing about gas prices in winter: Haha gently caress yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping about gas prices in summer: Well this loving sucks. What the gently caress.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:54
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the chronic denialism is what makes it a failure cascade and not just a series of unrelated failures and I appreciate that feature
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Mar 30, 2023 18:54
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and they'll be sending us a rebate of course
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Mar 30, 2023 18:54
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good thing inflation keeps rising everything is normal
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Mar 30, 2023 18:54
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Mr Hootington posted:As was said yesterday Thorn is actually a far right poster who thinks he is a centrist liberal. We have neolib centrists like Bar Run Fun, shrike82, and Jaxyon, but there it is very clear Thorn is not like them. excuse me, I’m a Christian Socialist. if your gonna pull this poo poo it’s be more accurate to call me a SocDem.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:54
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Woke Mind Virus posted:Gimme 5 minutes in a room alone with this "AI". Buddy, you aren't allowed to be inside the Chinese room. 
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Mar 30, 2023 18:55
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:the chronic denialism is what makes it a failure cascade and not just a series of unrelated failures and I appreciate that feature I mean, that's basically how collapse works. poo poo doesn't just fall apart overnight. Things just get shittier in small ways every day. Eventually you stop on the way from your 16 hour a day job to your sleeping coffin and think "I don't remember things being this bad when I was younger," and that's that.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:55
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HallelujahLee posted:good thing inflation keeps rising everything is normal the new Zelda game is $70! how can anybody say this is normal!!
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Mar 30, 2023 18:56
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HallelujahLee posted:good thing inflation keeps rising everything is normal That's the thing I like about my salary Inflation keeps going up but it stays the same Alright, alright, alright
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Mar 30, 2023 18:56
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:There's zero interest among the people in charge to make sure the every day building blocks of a society are produced because they're too busy chasing the financialization dragon. we can't get mulch, we can't get cold medicine, we couldn't get eggs for a while there. We're just going to have rotating supply chain disasters while the people capable of fixing the problem and getting the widgets made spend their time trading instruments back and forth for ever-escalating prices. very cool Yes but it will be normal too when a competing system takes their place and their legitimacy will be based on things working “normally”. Sometime after it becomes completely normal that USPS does not provide reliable long distance communication, or normal that it doesn’t exist, it will be normal that letters are sent through China Post, and because that will work, it won’t be a shocking outrage and invasion of our beautiful society but the restoration of normalcy.
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Mar 30, 2023 18:56
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PostNouveau posted:Oh cool $13 million in city money handed over to a for-profit entity to bribe them into running a for-profit grocery store (in a location that recently got wiped out by a flood). One of the funniest things about food deserts is they've never been real. The definition was jerry rigged to exclude tons of places with food, including frozen vegetables. It was entirely about having fresh food at stores. And then when stores opened offering that, surprise, people didn't want or couldn't afford that stuff anyways So yeah like most other things it's all just a big scheme for getting dollars to favored friends, just like minority owned businesses and whatever else. Some real fun examples of that with the legal weed stores and the govt unsuccessfully trying to keep out all entirely white businesses with a minority front person
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Mar 30, 2023 18:57
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:social media panicking about what to do when the states start throwing people off Medicaid is already starting It's amazing how low the income threshold is for the medicaid cliff (bc it's based on the absurdly low federal poverty levels). I read that NM might pass a statewide medicaid opt-in, but the story didn't say whether there'd be subsidies & made it sound as if it'd only be $100/month cheaper than private insurance. (I think the example they used was $500/month instead of $600/month.)
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Mar 30, 2023 18:57
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NeonPunk posted:💯 this. Goons like to talk about how the media shapes the narrative and then fall for the media pushing stories hook, line, bait. Hell yes I don't think the medicaid stuff will be a tidal wave any more than the fake news eviction tidal wave. When my kid got thrown off medicaid each year, it required a state employee to make a determination and send a letter. Heck, it took until June one year to do that, in normal pre COVID times. So presumably that's going to be the same thing in many states - people will just wait nervously for letters than never arrive before next enrollment period. Of course some states will simply mass kick off everyone at once but those people probably voted wrong so no one will care mastershakeman has issued a correction as of 19:02 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Mar 30, 2023 18:59
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:eggs and gas are cheap again stop posting
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Mar 30, 2023 19:01
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skooma512 posted:The eggs and fuel haven't dropped in price where I'm at. Of course the spot price of either of these things only matters when it's rising, when it's falling they just keep it the same.
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Mar 30, 2023 19:02
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skooma512 posted:The eggs and fuel haven't dropped in price where I'm at. Of course the spot price of either of these things only matters when it's rising, when it's falling they just keep it the same.
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Mar 30, 2023 19:02
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mastershakeman posted:One of the funniest things about food deserts is they've never been real. The definition was jerry rigged to exclude tons of places with food, including frozen vegetables. It was entirely about having fresh food at stores. And then when stores opened offering that, surprise, people didn't want or couldn't afford that stuff anyways Lol it was definitely a way to get Whole Foods into a neighborhood before gentrifying it
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Mar 30, 2023 19:06
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Louisgod posted:the feds wont' do anything about it because it's a bunch of white supremacists behind all the terrorism, and cops don't go after their own the feds wont' do anything about it because they're a bunch of 90 year old geriatrics that have no clue that the entire country (and their entire arsenal) is crumbling. many of them want to live just long enough to get their rear end kicked by china and then stick the proletariat with the bill while dancng into heaven
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Mar 30, 2023 19:06
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